Mistral Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Moonshot AI Kimi Linear — side-by-side specs.
Mistral Mistral Medium 3.5 | Moonshot AI Kimi Linear | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Mistral | Moonshot AI |
| Release date | Apr 30 2026 | Oct 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 48B |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Kimi Linear shipped 211 days before Mistral Medium 3.5 | |
Mistral Medium 3.5 and Kimi Linear do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. Kimi Linear shipped 211 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Kimi Linear is an open-source / open-weight model; Mistral Medium 3.5 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.